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World War II poster promoting Cooper-Bessemer engines. Cooper-Bessemer was a brand of industrial engines and compressors manufactured in Mount Vernon, Ohio.The Cooper-Bessemer Corporation was formed when the C. & G. Cooper Company (founded in 1833) and the Bessemer Gas Engine Company (founded in 1899) merged in 1929.
In 1896, Anton Herkenhoff and Joseph Dues founded the Dues and Herkenhoff Machine Works, a blacksmith shop. Soon, Dues sold his share of the business, and Herkenhoff renamed the enterprise The Minster Machine Company. [5] [6] Oil drilling in the western Ohio area helped the company grow during its early years.
Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Ohio, United States, along the Kokosing River. [4] It is located 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Columbus . The population was 16,956 at the 2020 census .
The Galion Iron Works Company of Galion, Ohio, was founded by David Charles Boyd and his three brothers in 1907.In its early years, the Galion produced a wide range of road-building and other construction equipment, such as drag scrapers, plows, wagons, stone unloaders, rock crushers, and a variety of other "experimental machines".
United Grinding North America was established in 1984 under the name Hauni-Blohm-Schaudt in Richmond, Virginia. The name changed in 1989 to Blohm, Inc. In 1994, Blohm Inc. established United Grinding Technologies, Inc., in Miamisburg, Ohio, to consolidate the North American operations of all their machine tool companies. In the summer of 1995 ...
BWXT NOG's Barberton, Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Indiana, locations specialize in the design and manufacture of large, heavy components. BWXT NOG facilities in Lynchburg, Virginia , and Euclid, Ohio , design and supply components for United States government programs.
To depict the foundry industry, he visited the Modern Foundry to get ideas and set a scene for one of the murals, called Foundry and Machine Shop Products. In this mural, a man (modeled by Joseph Schwope, 1898–1980) is skimming a ladle of iron, while an iron pourer (modeled by Bill Rengering, 1901–1985) pours a mold.
It was built as a boarding house for women. In the 1920s, it became the offices of the Accurate Measure Oil Co. It later served as a barbershop and drug store, and held a laundromat from 1962 to 1981. In the 1970s, it also held Lucy's Restaurant. Its most recent use was to hold the gallery of Ohio State University art professor Pheoris West.